Outside the Beltway

Roy Moore’s loss in Alabama is bringing out into the open a civil war that has been going on for seven years now.

There are no good outcomes for the GOP in Alabama.

A seventh woman has come forward to accuse Senator Al Franken of having groped her as calls mount from his Democratic colleagues for him to resign.

With time running out in the year, it’s looking increasingly unlikely that the Senate GOP will be able to meet its deadlines on passing a tax reform bill.

President Trump put his thumb on the scale for Roy Moore, ignoring the allegations of harassment and sexual abuse that have been made against the candidate.

There’s growing evidence that Donald Trump’s tweets are hurting him but his aides have basically given up trying to control his Twitter habit.

A Fox News host has debunked the Uranium One conspiracy theory being pushed by his own network.

Roy Moore’s most die-hard defenders are living in a world of their own, and it’s unlikely they’ll change their minds.

The Moore situation illustrates the nonhierarchical nature of US parties. This is nothing new.

Republicans have a Donald Trump problem, and they can’t run away from it.

It’s been two years since John Boehner stepped down as Speaker, and he’s got a few things to say about his former colleagues and the state of American politics.

Forget all the talk about a civil war in the Republican Party, the truth is that Republicans and conservatives have already surrendered to Trump and Bannon.

Donald Trump’s entire modus operandi involves pushing divisive cultural hot buttons.

Republican Lamar Alexander and Democratic Senator Patty Murray say they’ve reached a bipartisan deal to fix an important part of the Affordable Care Act.

New polling shows increased support for gun control measures in the wake of Las Vegas, but it’s not likely to last and it won’t lead to any significant action by Congress.

At least for now, Republicans seem to be giving up on repealing and replacing the PPACA. That’s not going to make the base happy.

Reports are indicating that President Trump will decertify the nuclear weapons deal with Iran. This would be a foolish and potentially dangerous mistake.

The Supreme Court appears split on the question of whether or not partisan Gerrymandering is unconstitutional.

Trump loses his HHS Secretary amid a growing scandal involving the use of private and government jets by Cabinet officials.

While there are real differences between what’s being reported about White House officials such as Jared Kushner and what Hillary Clinton did, the charge of hypocrisy is well-founded.

In President Trump’s mind, American citizens exercising their First Amendment rights are “sons of bitches” who should be fired for exercising their rights.

President Trump’s job approval has improved slightly, but the numbers remain historically low for a newly elected President.

Independents don’t seek to shape party nominations.

President Trump reportedly openly humiliated his own Attorney General after learning of Bob Mueller’s appointment.

Americans support allowing Dreamers to stay in the country, and most of them also support allowing them to eventually become citizens.

Two polls find that most Americans support letting DACA beneficiaries to stay in the United States. Will that help move Congress to act?

The Trump Administration announced today that the program that provided deportation relief to nearly a million people brought to the United States as children would end unless Congress acts to save it.

President Trump is threatening to end a program that has benefited at least 750,000 innocent people.

Controversial Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke has resigned and will reportedly go to work for Donald Trump.

President Trump remains obsessed with the Russian investigation and continues to try to shut it down.

President Trump’s Afghanistan policy sounds awfully familiar, and it’s likely to lead to the same results.

On Trump’s anger.

“Why the hell would we do that?” — White House official.

Donald Trump’s core supporters in the Republican Party remain intensely loyal, and that seems unlikely to change.

Trump and his underlings continue to lie, even about the most trivial of matters.

A new poll shows that most Americans want Republicans want to move on from their failed effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff are making clear that President Trump’s tweets are not official policy. At least not yet.

President Trump’s weeklong effort to undermine his own Attorney General continues.

Don’t cry for Spicer.

Six months of revelations about ties to Russia is taking its toll on White House staffers.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is apparently chafing under a White House that isn’t letting him do his job.

The GOP’s effort to ‘repeal and replace’ Obamacare faces another roadblock, namely the fact that the American public doesn’t support their replacement plan.

The Senate GOP health care reform care bill faces a crucial week, and things aren’t looking good.

Twitter is, in some way, the most vacuous and simplistic of all social media, and it also appears to be the President’s main intellectual outlet.

Donald Trump’s first Cabinet Meeting looked like something out of a Maoist propaganda video.